[OkieAcres]

You know what I hate. The thought of billions of souls following men instead of Christ. I fear that Satan is very happy with that scenario. I just have tremendous respect for God's word. I feel God gave us a mind capable of understanding his divine word. I have no scorn for the John Paul the person. He seemed to be a decent man.

[TomB]

What happened to just about everybody born prior to the printing press and general literacy? It seems to me that you are condemning a whole lot of people (almost the entire population of the world for over a thousand years) to hell because they didn't have access to the Bible or couldn't read.

[Conservative til I die]

You know what I hate. The thought of billions of souls following men instead of Christ.

Yeah me too. Although I don't think it's exactly "billions" that are following Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen G. White, Joseph Smith, Joseph Rutherford, Charles Taze Russell, Henry VIII, etc.

[NittanyLion]

You know what I hate. The thought of billions of souls following men instead of Christ.

So it's your assertion that Catholics don't follow Christ? Funny, I don't know any fellow Catholics who fit your description - but don't let the facts get in your way.